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    • CommentAuthordmalisani
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2008
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    Hi, I put the DNS, I created an account, I installed the opendns client.
    When I enter to frontpage of opendns, it informs "You're using OpenDNS!".
    The level of filter it put to maximun.
    Why dot not filter all the listed adult sites (playboy.com, redtube.com, etc) but yes filter by example any forums ?
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2008
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    • CommentAuthorouben123
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2008
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    yes
    • CommentAuthordmalisani
    • CommentTimeNov 7th 2008
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    Why the shortcut does not work either?.
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2008
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    What does http://welcome.opendns.com/ come back with?
    Does https://www.opendns.com/dashboard/networks/ say "(your current IP)"?
    • CommentAuthordmalisani
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2008
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    Yes, the Networks page shows "(your current IP)"
    -Opendns filter same sites, but other famous porn sites aren't locked (ex. playboy.com)
    -The shortcut and manual domain "always block" don't work either
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2008
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    Strange, that playboy.com is tagged as pornography. Never heard that they are in porn at all, but didn't research this further. Why should I visit such a crap site? Even nudity is not really accurate, as most ladies there are apparently not nude. It's really a bad thing, this categorization in general. Apparently "the fine folks at St.Bernard Software" do not nearly know what pornography and nudity is, to express it diplomatically. Wikipedia and other encyclopedies could enlighten them a lot...

    Well, back to your problems, for me all of this works, with the exception of shortcuts, because this is also dependent on the browser configuration, as one can see when searching the forum here.

    I am afraid that we cannot help you further in the forum, best is to open a support ticket at http://www.opendns.com/support/contact/
    OpenDNS staff can have a look into your configuration to see if there is a problem or mistake with the configuration.
    • CommentAuthordiacon
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2008
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    It's considered pornography in the USA. Remember, we were founded by Puritans.
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2008
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    If you call a house "car", it will not get wheels at all to roll away. Same is with a tree or a mountain.
    And yes, playboy may also be "considered" pornography in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, ...
    Look, what things you have common with them, the "most important" ones...
    So - what's the difference???
    • CommentAuthordiacon
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2008
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    The gist of it is that anything that is deemed sexual in nature, which includes scantily dressed women (since that will illicit a biological response in men), is labeled pornography.

    Academically, is it correct to call it pornography? No. However, due to the highly religious moral values that control the USA (and other countries in their own respect) things get labeled a certain way. Since that is the social consensus, no matter how asinine you (or I) might think it is, that is the label it must wear (for now).

    I think you would enjoy the film "The People vs. Larry Flint". Rent it if you can.
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2008
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    "anything that is deemed sexual in natur... is labeled pornography"
    And imagine, our Chancellor Angela Merkel is porn too! Yes, because there are videos of her at YouTube. But fortunately Bush and Obama are porn too - how consoling! Well, the human race is "sexual in natur", this is how He meant us to be when he created us, didn't he? So - we are all porn! How do the carriers of this "highly religious moral values that control the USA", which are of no value, justify this sin against Him and His will? Do they have a different creator than the one described in the Holy Books? Any explanation - or just silence, or totally stupid non-worthy useless words? It rather looks as if they took their moral from a kind of magic Black Books...

    Unfortunately this makes these categorizations totally worthless for us here over. :sad:
    It's just crap - not less, but certainly more. I even cannot use it at my 10 yo son's computer, it would block too much content he is obligated to reseach for his school work! And the teachers and other school kids would laugh over him, if he said that his father prevented him from researching necessary matter accordingly...

    I would like, or better: I desire to get pornography (yes - PORNOGRAPHY) blocked, but cannot achieve this with OpenDNS or almost all other filtering tools, as almost all of this originates from the USA or "similar" countries. :sad:

    So I keep it with the subject recommendation of this thread: "Don't filter the sites" (I know, it was not meant this way), and this is what most people do here as well while following this recommendation.
    I'm back on topic now, am I?
    • CommentAuthorM Frank
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2008
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    I have all the "adult" type of categories blocked, via OpenDNS, and several others. We have had almost zero impact on our surfinging. There have been a couple mislabled sites here and there. All of which were done by St. Bernards, not the community. My wife is from asia and, over at St. Bernards, anything asian must be adult content.

    Unfortunatley we can not vote those down. However I manually unblock them, and wait or 3, cough, more like 6 minutes. She who is quite well educated (MBA) and is fluent in multiple asian and european languages, reviews the site, tells me all about it. Then I come here flag it for review. Sometimes I write more about why it needs to be reviewed.
    • CommentAuthordiacon
    • CommentTimeNov 13th 2008
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    That's the problem with filtering anything. I only use OpenDNS to filter for businesses that don't want their employees using the internet for non-business approved sites as well as helping to combat phishing and potential malware embedded websites.

    Different people have different needs. OpenDNS does what I need, so I use it. If it didn't I wouldn't. C'est la vie. I also use other hardware and software for internet restrictions for what ever the client needs. I don't judge, it's their choice.

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